Jesus, who healed on the Sabbath and was condemned by the religious establishment.
You betcha He taught relationship and not religion. He condemned religious activity without the more important things of the heart, truth, and mercy, and justice.
It's all about becoming right with God and becoming His CHILDREN.
That is relationship, not religious works.
THANK GOD that peop[le are finding Jesus and that religion is not keeping them from Him any more.
“Jesus, who healed on the Sabbath and was condemned by the religious establishment.”
And what was Jesus’ response? He condemned their HYPOCRISY. You’re proving my point.
“You betcha He taught relationship and not religion.”
No. He taught that religion without relationship just leads to hypocrisy. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23
“He condemned religious activity without the more important things of the heart, truth, and mercy, and justice.”
As I just said, He taught that religion without relationship just leads to hypocrisy. The problem so many “Jesus, but not religion” Protestants have is that they:
1) forget that they HAVE a religion too. Instead they assume that what everyone else has is a religion.
2) have erroneously come to believe that Jesus denounced religion. He never did. He denounced hypocrisy.
3) forget Christianity itself is a religion. Christ founded it.